It is recognised that government involvement in sport events is based on various rationales, and these rationales influence the potential outcomes a city may experience from hosting such an event (Gleeson & Low, 2000; ...

We examine the ex-dividend day behavior in a unique setting where (1) there are neither taxes on dividends nor on capital gains, (2) stock prices have been decimalized, (3) dividends are distributed annually, and (4) we ...

This paper presents the results of an empirical study exploring the expatriate performance management systems of 16 Australian multinational firms operating in China. The results show that highly internationalized firms ...

This chapter focuses on stated preferences obtained from discrete choice experiments (DCEs also known as SPDCEs). as opposed to data that reflect real market choices (revealed preferences (RP) as discussed in Chapter 9). ...

This paper examines whether a rule-based expert system is capable of outperforming the general property market, as well as randomly constructed portfolios from the market. While neural network expert systems have been used ...

The aim of this paper is to identify the key
software review inputs that significantly affect review
performance in practice. Five in-depth semi-structured
interviews were conducted with different I.T. organizations.
From ...

This paper presents an exploratory piece of research conducted to discover financial and business advisory needs of micro and small enterprises in Fiji. It will form the basis for a future larger and more in-depth study ...

All scenario planning projects have a 'client' and one of the most challenging tasks facing a scenario planner is the client's role or position in the way projects are conceptualized, delivered and received. The scenario ...

This paper offers a new perspective on consumer knowledge analysis that combines Human Associative Memory (HAM) models from cognitive psychology with network analytic approaches in order to gain deeper insights into consumers ...

Contemporary business challenges and globalisation pressures have had a significant impact on the human resource management (HRM) practices of many organisations. Whilst the adoption of more sophisticated, complex and ...

The emergence of professionalism in the ecotourism industry has been noted (cf. Fennell, 2003; Wearing, 1995; Weaver, 2001, 2008), however, there is a lack of literature that addresses the professionalism and the quality ...

A central concept in the notion of leisure, and therefore also of recreation, is freedom. In this article we argue that freedom in organised recreation, especially in activities involving some degree of deliberate risk-taking ...

This paper examines the future of sustainability education in tourism honours programs in Australian tertiary institutions, an issue of international relevance as many tourism programs are located in mainstream business ...